龟厌不告龜厭不告

龟厌不告龜厭不告 in English

guī yàn bù gào: (idiom) Even highly effective methods may cease to work when overused. The expression warns against excessive reliance on a particular method.

Character breakdown

龟龜 guī tortoise
厌厭 yàn (bound form) to loathe
不 bù no
告 gào (bound form) to say

Stroke order

Le caractère 不 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 告 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 告

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

龟

These are the forms of 龜, the traditional character: 龟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

厌

These are the forms of 厭, the traditional character: 厌 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 7 forms

不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

告

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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